skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The justice system should not be retributive" is a poor way to phrase it. I think what OP intended to say is that at least on paper, it is at about the right level of retribution right now, and that increasing it really isn't helpful.

In the American justice system, you do the crime and then do the time, after which you are released and can live as a free man for the rest of your days. If the crime is especially unforgivable, you go in for life. There is a major disconnect in people's understanding of that. People disagree with the sentencing, but then fixate on the idea that somebody might be able to live a normal, pro-social life upon release and focus their anger on that instead of what they actually have an issue with.

"Protect your perpetrator" is a really huge stretch. Letting someone who is in for 5-10 years for pushing crack get a job they can work from their cell so they can potentially get right upon release is definitely preferable to ensuring the perpetrator turns into a career fuckup.
Show HN: A Clipboard manager for macOS which also suppports images
Hi everyone,
I have been meaning to create something which can help me store not just clips of text but also of images(small files are also supported but not tested). Introducing rockstar-clipboard manager, it can save clippings of your text, images and can help you sync those with Obsidian if you are like me who wants to review some of the copied content from time to time. It also comes with a notification sound on copy feature which triggers a sound everytime you make a copy, so that you are aware that tool really did copy.
This is for macos only atm, I got to know that Windows supports clipboard manager by default so I will not proceed with that, For linux, I will have to research on how I can do that.
Looking forward to hearing from you.
Sometimes to convey needs better. Some species of dogs vocalize almost human like sounds. However there has to be selective pressures to encourage DNA change that produces a dog that can talk. Without breeding happening to produce those selective features it will not happen. This probably won't happen for 200K+ years.

However we've been training dogs to press buttons to express their needs and this is likely to come well before AI manages to establish LLMs around dog mannerisms.
Reminder that Chevron bought some key NiMH patents and used their ownership of those patents to prevent building batteries for cars.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patent_encumbrance_of_large_...

If those patents hadn't been, or had they been shorter lived, or if antitrust law was more robust, we might have seen a lot more investment in optimizations on and variations of the NiMH chemistry.

What a fascinating world I'll never live in.
The body panels are more and more often plastic or aluminum these days. There's still often steel in the suspension and subframe, though.

The point of the article, though, is lots of people still spread FUD a out EV batteries and the data we have shows that batteries are not a problem. They last longer than transmissions and engines on average.
New cars definitely have the same problem, they're computers on wheels with sensors every where. You can bring a 1980s shit box anywhere and unless it's totalled they'll get it running. For anything build after 2010: good luck. Let's see what happens when you bring your vintage 2012 tesla to a garage in the 2050s

I still dream of the US/EU coming up with a standardized set of chassis/engines instead of having dozens of companies independently spending millions trying to solve the same problems

Deep down I know all this complexity is needed because it generates a shit ton of money from fake competition, maintenance schedules, parts price gouging, &c. The inefficiency and waste is a feature
Would you rather be scammed or stabbed? According to you, you should be indifferent. Personally, I’d prefer to be scammed.
This is a frequent trope employed in places with comically inept snow preparedness - like the Pacific Northwest - ignoring the existence of automatic carwashes. With how many persistently dirty Subaru Outbacks I've seen on the 5 I question if they know this alien technology exists.
That's about the term, not the conditions and resulting impact on the prisoner.

Of course, people seem to prefer inhumane, brutal conditions, regardless of the impact.
I'm one of those people. Very happy to associate myself with animism and anthropomorphize animals and machines. I think one of the biggest mistakes with Christianity and the western world is that we see ourselves as something greater than animals and other things.

Animism is the belief that objects, places, and creatures all possess a distinct spiritual essence. Animism perceives all things—animals, plants, rocks, ...
The N=1 or handful of people that are your exception kind of prove the rule.

Here's the thing...if you want to be pedantic, you need to explain how someone persists such alpha over time with examples. Not easy.

edit: See my note below on RenTech.
I think climate is something we need to concern ourselves with now and at the rate we’re putting up new methane power plants to power the DC’s for these AI apps today, we might not make it to this hypothetical future where magic algorithms will reset everything.

Like it or not we already know what we need to do to avert the worst of the climate disasters to come.
And much much much cheaper too
Norm Mcdonald also has a horrible joke about it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3LMSflEN54
It's not tautological because it's objectively wrong.

There is no biological purpose. We are just a multitude of chemical reactions falling down the entropy slope in a slightly odd way.

"Purpose" is a concept entirely made up out of whole cloth for hairless apes who accidentally invented language and that allowed them to do a lot of thinking outside the confines of their biological processes.

We are perfectly free to CHOOSE reproduction as a "purpose", but nothing about biology actually cares. If you don't reproduce, oh well, something else will take that spot in the ecosystem.
In the US of A, in the land of free and brave, it's a crime if the stock price does not go up. Probably legal fees are very minor compared to losses and it would be bad fiduciary duty not to sue if there is even 1% chance to win by a miracle.
To people who know me I state the "range" in days to next charge (which I can't do at home).

And that seems to be quite relatable if my circumstances are known by the recipient.
> or indentured servitude college students making billions for the NCAA

That's no longer the case. NIL is paying out hundreds of thousands to millions for 18-21 year olds in College Football[0] (don't know how much other sports get, but they get paid too) unless they are in a state that bans it (not sure if there are still hold outs) or the military academies, but they are a different breed entirely. It's basically minor league pro football now.

[0] https://collegefootballnetwork.com/top-10-nil-deals-in-2024/
If I understand this properly, I’ve needed this in typescript a lot.

I can make `type uuid = string` for self documentation, but a lot of plugins will just label it “string” and developers can (and have) mistakenly put some other identifier, like the robot’s hostname.

Of course we validate at the API but it’d be more skookum if we could prevent accidental wiring together of front-end components that make this error.

String literals help a ton. Gosh they’re wonderful to care about the shape of a string in the type system. But sometimes I really want to say “strict uuid” as in “I don’t care if it quacks like a duck, it’s not called duck.”
"Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction." -- U.S. Constitution, Amendment 13.
RAII isn't just about the destructor, though. It's about writing the constructor in such a way that you can always safely destroy the object. If you don't write the constructor right, RAII might become something you really hate, because it could blow up on you any time the destructor fires.
Why would lab babies be unethical? Or do you mean some more specific scenario?
>Your counter analogy is also a bit cherry picked. Guns and vehicles used for committing crimes are seized, but the vehicle makers and gunsmiths are not ordered to go substantially out of their way to prevent criminals from using them, although they do stamp serial numbers.

Internet companies aren't being asked to proactively block piracy sites either. They're asked to block IP addresses associated with known piracy sites, as determined by the courts.

>Also, ore and parts suppliers are not required to ensure that the buyers of their material comply with all legalities with the use of their materials. There’s a line of absurdity that this crosses

...only because the government aren't nervous about "ores and parts" getting in the hands of criminal or rival states. For many other items, suppliers are required to seek export licenses for certain goods[1], which is arguably an equal or higher bar than what you're describing. Such items aren't limited to stuff like explosives or munitions, it also includes benign stuff like certain metal alloys, and semiconductors. Also, Banks and other financial institutions are required to proactively look for sanctions evasion activity.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Export_Administration_Regulati...
Toyota bet the farm on mature hybrid and ICE tech and got dismissed as some legacy boomer company for doing so.

Time will tell but I'm willing to bet they were right.
I’m imagining a mashup of a 50’s boiler room except with lab coats. These scientific papers aren’t going to sell themselves, boys. Gimme somethin’ that sizzles.
RenTech's magic comes from their tax attorneys and creative accounting like their ploy to get long term capital gains treatment on daily trades! They've had to pay at least 7 billion in fines, which is an astronomical fine [0] and probably means they were doing even worse.

[0] https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/renaissance-executi...
Very core parts of modern cars are essentially single use. Older engines could have the cylinders resurfaced or bored and sleeved. Newer engines have coatings and construction methods that disallow this. One scratched cylinder is now the end of a whole engine given the various matched parts that can’t be swapped block to block.

In the standard case this doesn’t matter as things last a long time inside an engine. The same is probably true for EVs.

When things go wrong all the repairability issues mean you’re out a car unless you’re willing to invest in repair. Is a 30K car worth a 20K repair bill? The Audi service department is happy to walk you to the sales department if not.
According to Wikipedia only about 677k vehicles were takes out of the market. In 2009 there were about 254 million registered cars in the US so did it really put a dent in the market?

[0]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car_Allowance_Rebate_System

[1]:https://www.statista.com/statistics/183505/number-of-vehicle...
Thank you. So the attack somehow sets up a situation where AlphaGo/KataGo is the dead man walking? It doesn't realise at move 30 it has a group that is dead, and continues not to realise that until (close to the time that?) the group is formally surrounded at move 150?

I still don't really understand, because this makes it sound as if AlphaGo/KataGo is just not very good at Go!
What will happen is that you simply prevent people from getting on the road with physical barriers. This happened in some place in the 30s and even where it didn't, it was simply made illegal.
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/friendship
Some of them are pretty serviceable at the module level. Ford has done a good job here. Of course, it won't be economical to service them unless someone starts mass-producing aftermarket modules.

I'm keeping my fingers crossed that someone will start making solid state replacements at some point. That could be a nice business if the costs ever get down low enough.
If you're drinking soda daily, your teeth are coated in acidic liquid for hours a day. This is incredibly damaging to your enamel.
They demonstrated to investors a willingness to generate AI porn. This is just speculation, but it’s also the only remaining use case that will make money.
It's not just that he disagrees with the things on an object, what happened level. He actively reads malice into every misstep to paint the organization as abusive.
Ask HN: Is the race to AGI the new space race?
There is only one truth: Monthly account statements.
At what point would you have standardized this rapidly improving category of product? Would you have frozen the interfaces around the time of the Dodge Intrepid[1]? Perhaps after considering that example you start to see the problem with standardization.

You hear the same think about electric bikes, and the argument has the same fatal flaws. Current e-bikes are massively better than what was on the market 3, 5, and 10 years ago. Standardizing them at any point would have been catastrophic, and we must assume that standardization now would also be catastrophic.

[1: That said, all cars are converging on the exterior shape of the Intrepid, in a process similar to carcinization among animals. Weird!]
I don't know if the stock market is really the same as Global Thermonuclear Warfare
I have one of such fortifications, called Toblerone line, running around our place in canton Vaud. The whole line is maybe 15km long from Geneva lake up the Jura mountains, made up from concrete spikes (even raisable in the middle of roads), blowable bridges and around 15 tiny concrete fortresses (fortinettes), all in plain sight, mostly visible on google maps/street view.

All built around 1930s. There is popular hiking trail along all this, since nature and forests around it are pretty and well maintained. No secret really. Same for many other old stuff. New stuff should be hidden on bases/remote places.

Btw checked our building and surrounding ones and its pretty precise but not up to date with 2024 finished construction.
The interest is usually still more than inflation, they just make less money- and the alternatives for them are either cash, which loses more, or investments that are higher risk and more volatile.
Learning coding is still valuable for the same reason knowing basic arithmetic is useful. You technically don't need to know how to add, subtract, multiply and divide since a calculator can do it better, but even so it's still an incredibly useful skill. I think coding is the same way.

Now, is software engineering still a viable long term career option? Honestly, probably not (to be fair, I think most white collar jobs will be significantly automated away anyways). But if it's something you're genuinely interested in, I'd say you should still give it a shot.
I just learned the trivia that for milk in Germany the ratio was around 30% going to farmers which seemed surprisingly good
The Danish position here is actually quite incomprehensible.

They have not been good stewards, and in fact they seem to despise the actual inhabitants of Greenland. (All ~50k of them.) See, e.g., this forced eugenics campaign: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiral_case

Life expectancy in Greenland is extremely low, at 70.06 years (average) -- 68.09 years for males. This is poor even by third-world standards. Similarly frosty Iceland has a life expectancy of nearly 83 years, and similarly colonized French Polynesia is at 84.

Pointedly, the Danish have made no effort to actually settle Greenland or utilize the resources everybody keeps talking about.

It's not well-run, not well utilized, and really the Danes ought to be ashamed of the state of things.

At the same time, they're throwing billions of dollars into Greenland-oriented subsidies and military spending, all of which serves no obvious Danish interest.

They ought to cut it loose. And then if the US wants to make the free and sovereign inhabitants an offer -- which could be quite generous -- I think it may very well benefit all involved.

The media's portrayal of Trump's offer makes him look bad, but, as things stand, it's truly the Danes who come off seeming schizo and vaguely evil.
800 holes and no keypad, plus the keys are all bunched up like on a laptop.
Working backwards ...

> Something that is not likely true (though it is erroneously presented as likely of being true) are likely false.

That doesn't make sense to me. Because something isn't proven here, that doesn't make it more likely to be false; it's just uncertain. Poor evidence is not evidence either way. To say it's false, it would need to be proven false, with good evidence. If I assert, 'the universe is expanding because Pluto is further away today than yesterday', my argument wouldn't support the claim but that doesn't logically imply that the universe is not expanding.

> Failures in statistical methods are not covered by 'everything has flaws'. Those are fatal, existential flaws.

Why are errors in statistical methods -- if they exist here: we have a hot take by a random, anonymous Internet commenter (using a new account) against scientists who spent a long time on this work, and put their names and reputations on it -- somehow more fatal than other errors?

For example, some statistical errors lead to weaker results, but results nonetheless. Some lead to results with a somewhat different meaning. (Some lead to stronger results.)

We need to deal with imperfect information all the time and find value in it, or we would have almost no information. I spent last week solving a problem with several routers interacting; I had some clear data, some unreliable information, and some black-hole uncertainty; I had to work with what I had and solve the problem. The idea that science is exempt from that is a fantasy of non-scientists, of the religion of science.
>Personally, I draw the line when an actual human being is harmed. If I see someone shoplifting from Walmart, no I didn't. If I see someone smashing the windows of a private car, yes I did.

Both examples aren't exactly clear lines. The walmart example arguably affects "actual human beings" by raising prices, or at the very least, making the shopping experience worse. See: stores in the US where anything vaguely high value is locked up and you need to call an employee over to open it. The car window smashing example could result in no economic loss for the owner, if the owner has comprehensive 0 deductible insurance, or if the car is a company car. There's also plenty of activity that we ought to ban even if there's no "actual human being is harmed", eg. speeding, or tax evasion.
Yeah, but equivalent units with different names is sort of only a display/formatting issue, right?
Yeah, true. But that (assuming you're saying give me es_MX if it exists otherwise es) has a similar possible solution. Model your Language and variants hierarchically rather than flat. So languages.get("es_MX") becomes

let language = languages.get_language("es");
let variant = language.get_variant("MX");

There's probably other more general ideas where this can't be fixed (but there's some internal changes to the rules mentioned in other parts of this thread somewhere on (here/reddit/lobsters).
Let's go full SI. One watt is one joule per second, so 1 kWh = 3.6 MJ. Model 3's battery options are from 180 MJ to 295 MJ.

Looks readable, human-scale, easier to type than kWh.

To compare, 1 gallon of car fuel is about 120 MJ of thermal energy content, so about 40 MJ of mechanical output energy content, if we acccount for the ICU efficiency and transmission losses.
As a consultant data scientist who attended NeurIPS this year I was surprised at how few of the talks and posters covered innovations practically applicable outside of niche domains. Those that did (DL for tabular data, joint LLM training with RAG, time series foundational models) were swamped with attendees. It's not that there aren't jobs for innovators, it's just that there needs to be some amount of applicability of your research outside the theory of learning.
Dismissed by whom? They're the biggest automaker and until recently their lifetime shipments of batteries in cars had been larger than Tesla's.
"At their core, guidelines are decision trees"

That's wishful and perhaps not even helpful as a goal. Guidelines rarely have the data to cover all possible legs of decisions. They report on well-supported findings, offer expert opinions on some interpolated cases, and perhaps list factors to consider for some of the remainder. If you reduced this to a decision tree, you'd find many branches are not covered, and most experts could identify factors that should lead to a more complex tree.

The reason is that branches are rarely definitive. It's more like quantum probabilities: you have to hold them all at once, and only when treatment works or doesn't does the disease (here cancer) declare itself as such.

Until the true information architecture of guidelines is captured, they will be conveyed as authoritative and educational statements of the standard of care.

In almost all cases, it's more important to reduce latency and increase transparency (i.e, publish faster but with references) than to simplify or operationalize in order to improve uptake. Most doctors in dynamic fields don't need the simplification; they rely on life-long self-discipline and diligence to overcome difficulty in the material, and use guidelines at most as a framework for communication and completion, i.e., for knowing when they're addressed known concerns.

Structured guidelines mainly enable outsiders to observe and control in ways that are likely to be unproductive.
Nope.

I have worked professionally for several years on what would now be considered a legacy rust code base. Probably hundreds of thousands of lines, across multiple mission critical applications. Few applications need to juggle lifetimes in a way that is that limiting, maybe a module would need some buffing, but not a major code base change.

Most first pass and even refined "in production" code bases I work on do not have deeply intertwined life-times that require immense refactoring to cater to changes. Before someone goes "oh your team writes bad code!", I would say that we had no noteworthy problems with lifetimes and our implementations far surpassed performance of other GC languages in the areas that mattered. The company is successful built by a skeleton crew and the success is owed too an incredibly stable product that scales out really well.

I question how many applications truly "need" that much reference juggling in their designs. A couple allocations or reference counted pointers go a really long way to reducing cognitive complexity. We use arenas and whatever else when we need them, but no I've never dealt with this in a way that was an actual terrible issue.
From the kernel's POV, there's no undefined behavior in user code. (If the kernel knew a program had violated C's memory rules, it could kill it and we wouldn't have endemic security vulnerabilities.) Likewise, in safe Rust, the access to that array might be well defined with respect to Rust's view of the world (just like even UB in C programs is well defined from the kernel POV), but it can still cause havoc at a higher level of abstraction --- your application. And it's hard to predict what kind of breakage at the application layer might result.
> A common workaround is to put items in a Vec and pass indices around. This doesn't fix the problem. It just escapes lifetime management. Lifetime errors then turn into index errors, referencing the wrong object.

That people seriously are doing this is so depressing... if you build what amounts to a VM inside of a safe language so you can do unsafe things, you have at best undermined the point of the safe language and at worse disproved the safe language is sufficient.
It frustrates me a lot for sure, but I like programming in general. I'm mostly programming to know how things work, not to produce any product.
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